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Vuudoo Captain Offline Sic vis pacem para bellum Posts: 312 Reno Gender:	Question about laptop Mar 09^th, 2010, 1:22am Hopefully someone can help. I am having an issue with my laptop. my battery charger now longer charges my battery on my laptop so i bought a new charger and battery which happen to be rather expensive and it shows that the charger is plugged into the computer but does not charge. Any ideas?
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Cyberdemon87 Forum Moderator Offline GoN Member Posts: 456 North East Pa Gender:	Re: Question about laptop Reply #1 - Mar 9^th, 2010, 8:26am Well for one how old is the laptop? What brand is it? Have you searched the manufacturers website for known issues? HP has had some issues with their power connectors on their motherboards and everyone knows about dell's battery issues. Even with the laptop shut down and plugged in, does the battery charge?
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Vuudoo Captain Offline Sic vis pacem para bellum Posts: 312 Reno Gender:	Re: Question about laptop Reply #2 - Mar 9^th, 2010, 11:12pm It's about a year old, it's a gateway md2614 u. My girlfriend has searched a few things with it being something with the OS possibly. the laptop does not charge even when shut down and plugged in
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Reply #3 - Mar 9^th, 2010, 11:34pm

If it won't charge while shutdown, it's not the OS. Laptops I'm not too good with. I'll take them apart to figure out the problem, but quite often it'll never go back the same way again. I did a little snooping and I found this one solution to someone having the same problem on the same laptop, and it fixed it for him. So you can try it.

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I found out how to solve this problem...first power down your computer. Then take out the battery, remove the power supply, and then hold down the power button for 30 secs. Put the power supply in only (not the battery). Start your computer after everything is done loading up put the battery back in. Give it a min. and then you should be able to roll your cursor over the battery life indicator in the lower right corner of you computer and is should say charging. I have found that other people have had this problem and it has worked for myself and for them.

If it doesn't work, sounds like bad news. It's probably a motherboard related issue. And what I would do is take it apart, get an omnimeter and start testing where the power is losing. You'll probably find a break in the circuit and can solder it back or kill it trying. But that's just me.

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Vuudoo Captain Offline Sic vis pacem para bellum Posts: 312 Reno Gender:	Re: Question about laptop Reply #4 - Mar 9^th, 2010, 11:58pm Thanks for the info. I'll try it and if it does go that way i'll have a guy at work fix it or just pay for it to be shipped off and fixed by gateway which i'm sure will cost me a pretty penny
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Vuudoo Captain Offline Sic vis pacem para bellum Posts: 312 Reno Gender:	Re: Question about laptop Reply #5 - Mar 10^th, 2010, 12:11am Can I say how much i love you guys. ya'll are filled with information that just amazes me. I have been dealing with this issue for some time now. so far looks like it's working. Thanks scoots and cyberdemon for responding
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Vuudoo Captain Offline Sic vis pacem para bellum Posts: 312 Reno Gender:	Re: Question about laptop Reply #6 - Mar 10^th, 2010, 1:38am Spoke to soon worked for about 5 minutes then back to not charging.
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Tirithon Corporal Offline Tech Support and known to be a Decepticon. Posts: 271 Washington State Gender:	Re: Question about laptop Reply #7 - Mar 13^th, 2010, 12:06am Take it into your local techy store and tell them your problem, it seems internal. Sorry.
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Reply #8 - Mar 13^th, 2010, 12:20am

We told best buy the problem since thats where we got it from they told us to bring it in and they would send it to gateway but i work 12 hour days and get off too late to take it in. i do have days off but my last two days are always exhausting so i pretty much veg my whole entire weekend. Gateway told us 6-8 weeks and well i use my computer for work as well and thats just not acceptable so until i'm able to afford a new one. i'l stick with the problem. thanks for all ya'lls help

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Tirithon Corporal Offline Tech Support and known to be a Decepticon. Posts: 271 Washington State Gender:	Re: Question about laptop Reply #9 - Mar 13^th, 2010, 12:29am Sorry, locked.
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